... through a trapdoor centre stage into the darkness beneath. In counterpoint to the bleak set and formal costumes, the cast, speaking in French, seem peculiarly expressive. Pierre-Alain Chapuis as Leontes raves elo quently, rolls on the floor and tweaks the ...

... well, with neither performer managing to convey any feeling on the subject, Aladdin failing to speak all the lines clearly and the miscast Princess who did speak her lines clearly, in a piercing voice delivering every line in the same fiat manner whatever ...

... manner in which the hymn, All people-that on earth do dwell, and the Hallelujah chorus were performed there is no need to speak, but we are glad to be able to record the success which on this occasion attended the first performance of Jlr. Cowcn's choral ...

... scarf, his god-turned staff a walking stick. But he is given a sombre, thoughtful characterisation by Bill Wallis. Mr Wallis speaks with a compelling measured emphasis, freshness abounding in his big speeches. I would like to see him in a Brooke production ...

... America of a brother and sister which ends in a sudden piece of shrieking melodrama. Over-written or isn't it over writing to speak of a road being devoured by the car like an endless red noodle ...

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...

... systematic murder of the Jews in their thousands and tens of thousands. He and Father Riccardo were urging that the Pope should speak out, that he should condemn Hitler and that the papal attitude should be made plain before the world. It is a matter of history ...

... the meaning of life by a man of poetic temperament, Mr. Asche spends all his effort in attempting to speak the speech naturally, as he himself would speak if such words came into his head in ordinary circumstances among companions willing to put up with ...

... this one (I speak with as much keenness as if I was charging twopence a borrow) this one is I cast about for words to describe how good it is this one is good. (Now you see why reviewers write as they write. They could hardly write as they speak, could they ...

... cannot speak He may have Latin in his mawe, He may keep down controlled Potentialities of jaw Unmatched of any scold; He may have thoughts of sterling gold For each day of the week But he must all these things withhold, The man who cannot speak I Envoi ...

... 6d. Seven short visions by a young Jewess, who is compared to a 'Dyson or Raeinakers of the pen. In A Song of War she speaks of the Iron Cross as that on which Christ has been crucified.. ...

... Juliet Old Vic There is no need to say to John Neville, Wherefore art thou Romeo He was a natural choice for the part, and speaks it beautifully. Claire Bloom is a reasonable Juliet, Paul Rogers a resolute Mercutio, and Robert Helpmann's production excel ...